Saverne, village near Strasburg (Alsace

Pagre 56. — 1. parfiler, to purfle ; see page 70, lines \\ff.

2. leur ramage et leur plumage, their volubility (lit. " warbling ") and their dress (an allusion to La Fontaine's fable Le Corbeau et le Renard, Book I, Fable II).

Pagre 57. — 1. Squire Western, a country squire who figures in Fielding's novel Tom Jones — a typical spécimen of . his class, robust, coarse and brutal.

2. Thunder-ten-Tronckh, a German baron, who figures in Voltaire's satirical taie Candide.

Page 59.— 1. maréchal de Richelieu, ceiebrated for his numberless duels and amorous intrigues, a type of the worse side of high-lif e under the old régime/

2. Talleyrand, (1 754-1 83S), Abbé and bishop under the old régime, a partisan of the Révolution, a friend and tool of Napoléon in his glory and later an enemy and an instrument in his downfall, a servant of absolutism under the Restoration and of the libéral monarchy when it replaced the Bourbons, Talleyrand was a leading political figure under every government in France for half a century. and achieved the réputation of being one of the most cunning dipiomats, one of the most brilliant wits, and one of the most corrupt men known to history.

Page 60. — 1. le mot, Le. le bon mot, the jest.